Horrible Insurance and Horrible Pain

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-10-2005
Horrible Insurance and Horrible Pain
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:11pm

Hello. I feel as though I am groping in the dark here, but maybe someone has some ideas or resources that might help.

I have terrible insurance - A $5,000 deductable which in no way can I afford to have my gallbladder removed. I just finally finished paying off a hospital bill from 1998 from having appendix removed. I am with Humana One and if I up my coverage, with pre-existing conditions, I would have to wait one year before anything would be covered.

Does anyone know of any kind of program through a medical school where the fees are dramatically reduced for teaching purposes?

I am under the care of a doctor who has let my colonoscopy test slide another year because I have pleaded to wait until I hopefully had better insurance. So far my options are:

1. To make payments the rest of my life to hospitals
2. Marry someone who has better health insurance :>)
3. Go on welfare so I can have insurance
4. Move to Canada?

These options are all horrible, yet I am having episode after episode of horrible pain, throwing up, missing time from work, heartburn.

Do anyone have any ideas? I have tried special diets, medications and I am convinced that the gallbladder just needs to come out once and for all.

Thanks for listening to my frustrations...
Colleen

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-14-2003
Fri, 06-10-2005 - 8:35pm

Hello Colleen and Welcome to iVillage and to this board,
I am not a doctor

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